Gallipoli
From a place you never heard of...a story you'll never forget.
Gallipoli (1981)
Timing:
1:52 (112 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
War, History, Drama
Budget
$2 600 000
Revenue
$17 400 000
Director
Actors
Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Lathalu Yunipingu, Heath Harris, Ron Graham, Gerda Nicolson, Robert Grubb, Tim McKenzie
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Robert Stigwood, Patricia Lovell, Francis O'Brien
Operator
Composer
Brian May
Artist
Audition
Alison Barrett
Editing
William M. Anderson
All team (26)
All team (26)
Short description
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place primarily in South Australia (including the Gallipoli scenes filmed on the coast), as well as in Egypt (scenes at the pyramids and in the bazaar).
- The filmmakers placed an advertisement seeking 400 men confident in the saddle to participate in the filming. They only managed to recruit 200 such men. The remaining 200 riders were women disguised in men's clothing.
- Director Peter Weir was inspired to create this film by visiting the site where the Battle of Gallipoli took place during World War I. Initially, he and screenwriter David Williamson intended to tell the story of the campaign from all sides, but eventually decided to focus on a small group of characters and convey the tragedy of what happened through them.
- It took the filmmakers three years to find funding. Active searching for funding sources began after the Australian government refused to sponsor the filming, stating that the film was “not commercial”.
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